Arabic Social Studies Teacher

Contract Length: 3 years

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

- Middle School, High School
- Licensed Teacher

**Requirements**:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
- Major: History, Social Science
- Required Certificates:
- Teaching Credential/License**You must be a fully qualified teacher with**:

- Passionate and caring educators
- Experience with the American curriculum
- A commitment to an extensive enrichment program
- Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities
- Respect for all members of your school community
- Experience with students for whom English is an additional language
- A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life
- A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services or Police check

**Application**:
A cover letter and CV including details of two referees should be added as supporting documents on the TES website.

Job Benefits:
**What we offer**:
Aldar Education is a family of world-class, child-centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 22,000 students across our group of Owned and managed schools and as we grow, so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders.

Aldar Education is keen to hear from like-minded, forward-thinking school leaders who would welcome the challenge and opportunities that we have to offer.

**Job Description**:
Aldar Education is currently seeking high-performing Arabic Social Studies Teachers for the August 2023 start. The current vacancy is based in ADNOC School, Ruwais Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

ADNOC Schools are Massachusetts State Curriculum schools with superb facilities in Abu Dhabi City and the Western Region of Abu Dhabi Emirate.

The Massachusetts Curriculum is one of the most highly regarded and successful curricula in the United States, with close links to prestigious higher education institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduates of ADNOC Schools receive the American High School Diploma - the standard entry qualification for US colleges and universities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.

**Responsibilities**:

- Creating a climate for learning that is conducive to outstanding practice
- Identifying clear teaching and learning objectives
- Setting tasks that challenge students and ensure high levels of interest;
- Setting appropriate and demanding expectations;
- Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment;
- Identifying SEN or very able students and ensuring that their needs are met through differentiation;
- Providing clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation, and challenge;
- Making effective use of assessment for learning;
- Making effective use of performance data and key indicators to inform planning and therefore deliver differentiated lessons
- Maintaining discipline by the school’s ‘Behaviour for Learning Policy and encouraging good practice with regard to punctuality, behavior, standards of work, and homework;
- Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use them to improve specific aspects of teaching;
- Mark student's work at least once every two weeks and set targets for progress;
- Using performance data to inform planning and therefore ensuring the Learning and Teaching continue to ‘add value’
- Assess and record students' progress systematically and keep records to check work is understood and completed, monitor strengths and areas for development, inform planning and recognize the level at which the student is achieving
- Assess students as requested by examination bodies, departmental and school procedures
- Prepare and present informative reports to parents
- Attend professional development workshops as appropriate
- Undertake additional duties as required by the Principal or Vice Principal as appropriate.

**Using a variety of teaching strategies to**:

- match approach to content, structure information, present a set of key ideas and use appropriate vocabulary
- use effective questioning, listen carefully to students, give attention to errors and misconceptions
- select appropriate learning resources and develop study skills through the library, I.C.T., and other learning technologies;